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and then at gunpoint

pulled one of the girls off

into the woods... and it was

right near Halloween...

and basically this guy

put a mask over his head

and then he put a mask

over the girl's face,

I think the more scary thing

was being a woman,

being a girl between

1940 and 1950, in this area,

knowing the amount of things

going on.

I wouldn't have wanted to be

a babysitter back then.

I wouldn't have wanted

to be by myself

Most teenagers in the us

go through a period

when they baby sit

at least once or twice,

and it feels very terrifying

to the person who is doing it,

( eerie music )

But it's not actually dangerous

almost at all.

I mean, there's no reason

to imagine

that any killer would even know

that a babysitter was on duty

in the house,

and it makes the most sense

if you think about the fact

that maybe he knew she was

going to be there babysitting

and maybe

he did this specifically

to torment the babysitter,

and that is

exactly what happened,

they think,

in the Columbia case.

Joshua:
Was somebody tormenting

the babysitters in Columbia...

and was the same person

responsible for the sex crimes

that had terrorized this town...

and finally was this same

person Robert Mueller?

Hoping for some

additional insight,

we turned to a profiler

in Kansas City,

a former German national

named Peter brendt

who was willing to review

our case.

So in your opinion,

the same killer for both girls.

Yes.

This is too specific

if you add

all of the details together.

Do you think

that marylou Jenkins knew him?

Well, there was no sign

of forced entry on the door,

so at least from the sight,

she must have known him,

and he was non threatening

to her.

Right.

Now let's talk about christman.

Peter:
Oh, well,

this is a lot more specifics.

If you see

there comes an offender,

he breaks a window.

The victim runs to the kitchen

where the phone is,

and he walks in

through the front door.

Now, why would he do that?

He would do that

only if he knew one detail...

ed romack had shown her

how to use the shortcut.

Joshua:
Peter had brought up

an interesting clue...

one that many had overlooked.

Romack testified

that he had shown janett

a loaded shotgun

by the front door.

Mueller would distract her

away from the gun

so he could safely

get inside the house.

He knew how long he would need

around the house,

through the front door

into the kitchen.

So he knew every feet

of the route.

Do you think it was Mueller?

Peter:

He fits the bill,

but a lot of other males

of the town

would fit that bill, too.

And the problem is

he passed his lie detector.

Now, if you have even 20%

to 40% cycle passes it makes...

a lie detector,

especially an old model

from the '50s,

um, well, it's worthless.

is that the rapes and murders

stopped when he left town.

Well, that looks not good

on the other side.

What was it, half a million

young males went to Korea?

So he wasn't the only one

who left the area.

I mean he would

so nicely fit the bill,

but that's the risky part

with profiles, yeah?

A profile states

not who the killer is

but what the killer is.

Rachel:

I think it's interesting

that he thinks whoever this is,

he knew her...

he knew both.

Joshua:
Although we'll

never be able to prove

who committed all these crimes,

the evidence strongly suggests

that janett christman

knew her killer.

There really is not

a strong tradition in America

of strangers coming in

and killing babysitters.

Babysitters killing

small children, yes,

but the stranger

on babysitter story

just doesn't connect up with

a widespread real social fear.

( Thumping )

Stephen:
What the babysitter

and the man upstairs

seems to be about

is this warning

about this kind of

responsibility.

If you're taking

this responsibility,

you have to take it seriously.

So, you have this voice

that calls her up on the phone

and almost like a conscience,

asks have you checked

the children,

and she hasn't

checked the children,

and that's one of the reasons

why she doesn't know

that they've been murdered.

Bill Ellis:

I think it makes more sense

to look at it in a simple way

and say the babysitter is

dealing with her own anxieties

of being potentially the cause

of the children's death...

and the killer upstairs

is the killer upstairs for her.

Joshua:
The tragic case

of janett christman

only goes to prove

bill Ellis's point

that our portrayal of the man

upstairs is incorrect...

and that's because the truth

is more terrifying

than we can ever imagine.

Janett christman

knew her killer,

and if it's true

that her killer was Mueller

as so many in Columbia

have suggested,

then the man tormenting her

that fateful night

wasn't any stranger.

( Phone rings )

So now we go from

Columbia, Missouri,

to Chicago in the 1980s...

from the small town

to the big city.

For some,

it is a loss of innocence,

and nothing speaks to that loss

more than clowns.

( Circus music )

We used to think of clowns

as fairly happy characters.

Yes, sometimes

they were sad or hapless,

but ultimately they were

harmless caricatures.

Of course, clown faces

were exaggerated and garish,

but that's because of

the far distances

between the audience

and the ring.

It wasn't the clown's fault,

or was it?

Before modern times,

the clown...

or more appropriately

the Jester...

was considered

a mischievous trickster

whose special role

allowed them to mock nobility.

Jesters served to entertain,

but it wasn't all smiles.

These clowns had a mean streak,

and they played it to the hilt.

But what was it

about the clowns of today

that turned them

into something evil?

( Rooster cawing )

Breakfast.

I'm hungry.

Joshua:
Some believe

it was when we brought clowns

out of the big top

and into our homes

via birthday parties and TV,

that things

really began to change.

We see you here as bozo.

Who are you really?

Joshua:
Had that

suspicious gleam in the eye

been there all along?

Did we finally just put

two and two together to realize

that clowns were creepy

or even worse...

dangerous?

Announcer:

The news at 5.

News reader:

Chicago police warned parents

about a man dressed as a clown

who is approaching children.

Police say a clown

tried to lure boys

into his pickup truck

last Tuesday evening.

Police have issued

two community alerts

regarding the clown sighting

near some southside schools

as well as

some westside schools.

Joshua:

No one can say for sure

where in Chicago

it happened first or even when,

but they were out there,

snatching kids off the streets.

They trolled playgrounds

and schoolyards.

Sometimes they used

balloons or candy

to lure the gullible ones.

But ask anyone

who has seen them,

and they'll all tell you

the same thing...

it was the white van

they saw first

and then that face

behind the wheel

painted white

with a maniacal smile.

We call them the killer clowns,

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